Reviews for A Companion to the 'Libro de Buen Amor'

The average rating for A Companion to the 'Libro de Buen Amor' based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-01 00:00:00 Shawn Ferguson In poetry, the word-image "egret(s)" always makes me think of regret. but numbers keep their forms / and faces we still cherish of the ones / we love, lost, hallowed and reduced / to the echo of the numbers we skim quickly / from a new pain to which we will grow used, / like pebbles to the hoarse, numbering seaTerminal number twelve had no chair. Terminal number eleven was occupied by an older man with receding hair, reading comix distributed by King Features online while blaring crotch rock from his headphones. The terminals were soon all taken and the poems not yet cracked. A thumb keeps time atop the mouse. Discrete cliques of mice, the gentle tapping of keys on a board. Bored. The scroll yields no sum as of yet. I, abdominal, sit and desist.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-15 00:00:00 Philip Prince This is the writing of someone who has been doing backflips with English for so long, he's barely aware how impressive it is. It's seasoned, and also spectacular. That said, I think I might look for other works of his that I could enjoy more. Here he's a little bit whiney (I can only endure so much mourning over a lost muse) and the topics are too urbane to be relatable (I get it--you've traveled the world, especially the romantic old cities of Europe, and you like a good wine). All the same, I'm glad to have discovered him.